...Comus, thus alludes to this platonic idea : — I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creature in the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. Shakespeare is the only writer, who has alluded to the colours, which are reflected...

...tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. JWilton's Comus. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. Ibid. Beautiful Spirit ! with thy hair of light, And dazzling eyes of glory, in...

...Plucking ripe clusters from tlie tender s"001*;. ! Their port was more than human ; as tlief »I**! I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i'th' plaited clouds. I was awe strut». And as I pass'd, I worshipped : if those jou K». It were...

...while a boy: and the panegyric, we may suppose, was us justly due to his brother Thomas, Com. 298. Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision, &c. Again, the Lady requests Echo, v. 236. Canst tliou not tell me of a gentle pair, That likest thy...

...of the sorcerer, is unquestionably as bold an attempt as the above, of Mr. Howard, to paint those " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." But in the one case a comparative success has attended the courage which dared...

...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play...

...mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood: I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And...

...Milux.. in her form or aspect ; nothing that reminded the spectator of any resemblance to her brothers. < Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play...

...That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Ibeir : / faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play...

...vine That erawls along the side of yon small hill, Plueking ripe elusters from the tender shoots ; Beaumont's judgment eheek'd what Fleteher How Shadwell hasty, faery vision Of some gay ereatures of the element, That in the eolours of the rainbow live, And play...